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  2. Ural Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia, marking the separation between European Russia and Siberia. Vaygach Island and the islands of Novaya Zemlya form a further continuation of the chain to the north into the Arctic Ocean.

  3. Eurasia - Wikipedia

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    Eurasia is considered a supercontinent, part of the supercontinent of Afro-Eurasia or simply a continent in its own right. [7] In plate tectonics, the Eurasian Plate includes Europe and most of Asia but not the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula or the area of the Russian Far East east of the Chersky Range.

  4. List of mountain ranges - Wikipedia

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    Physiographic world map with mountain ranges and highland areas in brown, pink, and gray. This is a list of mountain ranges on Earth and a few other astronomical bodies.First, the highest and longest mountain ranges on Earth are listed, followed by more comprehensive alphabetical lists organized by continent.

  5. Geography of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Dinaric Alps, a mountain range in the Balkans; Pindus Mountains, Albania and Greece; Pyrenees, the natural border between France and Spain; Rila-Rhodope mountain system composed by massifs, including Pirin Mountain and Osogovo-Belasitsa mountain chain, mainly Bulgaria; Šar-Korab-Jakupica-Baba-KajmakĨalan-Olympus, Albania, North Macedonia and ...

  6. Boundaries between the continents - Wikipedia

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    The boundary between Asia and Europe is unusual among continental boundaries because of its largely mountain-and-river-based characteristics north and east of the Black Sea. Asia and Europe are considered separate continents for historical reasons; the division between the two goes back to the early Greek geographers.

  7. Alpide belt - Wikipedia

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    The Alpide belt or Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt, [1] or more recently and rarely the Tethyan orogenic belt, is a seismic and orogenic belt that includes an array of mountain ranges extending for more than 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) along the southern margin of Eurasia, stretching from Java and Sumatra, through the Indochinese Peninsula, the Himalayas and Transhimalayas, the mountains of ...

  8. Eurasian plate - Wikipedia

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    The Eurasian plate is a tectonic plate that includes most of Eurasia (a landmass consisting of the traditional continents of Asia and Europe), with the notable exceptions of the Arabian Peninsula, the Indian subcontinent, and the area east of the Chersky Range in eastern Siberia.

  9. Geology of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The geology of Europe is varied and complex, and gives rise to the wide variety of landscapes found across the continent, from the Scottish Highlands to the rolling plains of Hungary. Europe's most significant feature is the dichotomy between highland and mountainous Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from ...